Friday, February 1, 2013

January's tweets include remnants of the fiscal cliff, lots of gun stuff and climate change angst, plus some miscellaneous cuteness.

And even though I'M NOT LISTENING!, just a bit of Lance Armstrong and Vine crept in, too.

Fracking one single well requires 7 million gallons of water, plus an additional 400,000 gallons of chemical additives By OMB Watch

Inbox: "We’ve all heard of the Mommy Makeover..." Huh? (See also my war on "mommy" used by anyone unrelated to me).By Monika Bauerlein

If you can't beat the gun lobby w/ a Congresswoman who's been shot, an astronaut & a cop in a snappy uniform, it just can't be done.By Mark Fiore

all or nothing: if you cannot guarantee me a lifetime of BLISSFUL IMMORTALITY I do not want to try to address any problems at all ever.By Tom Tomorrow [in response to the NRA's Wayne LaPierre testifying before Congress]

Trying to solve climate change with natural gas is like trying to lose weight by switching to low-fat Twinkies.By Steve Davis

Wow. @WTUTeacher: "People always say this generation is lost. This generation is not lost, this generation is neglected." By Melinda D. Anderson

You know what, I think it's time for more corgi butt.By Emergency Cute Stuff

For hecklers of Newtown victim's dad, owning a gun is more important than possessing even the most basic common decency.By Frank Conniff

Much like Thomas Friedman, David Brooks wants a third party which reflects his own "sensible" values. Maybe they can form a party of two.By Tom Tomorrow

I want to open an "Adult" bookstore with books on retirement, prostate health, etc. Then when porn fans walk in, I can be all incredulous.By John Moe

Republicans & Democrats converge on immigration compromise: Lots more low-wage non-voters! Couldn't do better if they were trying for oligarchy on purpose.By davidfrum

How you view the world is a reflection of your inner being. Thats why u can see impoverished kids in Africa smiling, rich kids in NY crying.By Alex Banayan

Who let George R. R. Martin take over the writing on Downton Abbey?By Maggie Koerth-Baker

RT ‏@ianbremmer US has 5.3x the arable land, 4.6x available water of China. Resource inequality more troublesome than income inequality.By Richard Florida

People who use Twitter to talk about actual vines are having a bad week.By Chris Steller

We should be debating WHICH infrastructure, not WHETHER infrastructure. Teaparty mission accomplished.By Free Public Transit

Did you know? Burning one gallon of gas releases 20 pounds of CO2 into the atmosphere, where it will stay for 110 years, warming the planet.By Jonathan Foley

Just ate a burrito so big that I had to forget algebra to make room.By Alison Agosti

Building stuff is fun. Period. Making something out of nothing is endlessly rewarding.By Jason Fried

The @rupertmurdoch Twitter feed is an immensely useful teaching tool about the (non)relationship between wealth & power and merit & expertise.By Christopher Hayes

We all have our vices when it comes to entertainment. It's not football that gets me. It's the denial about what football actually is.By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Why is Twitter wasting its resources on free apps like Vine when so many of us would pay for an app that blocks tweets from #Davos?By jswatz

Huh. Never heard Likud called the Liquid Party before.By Chris Steller

Just finished Christia Freeland's Plutocrats. Anyone else feel like we live in an extractive state instead of an inclusive one?By Rob Jones

Aliens might be surprised to learn that in a cosmos w/ limitless starlight, humans kill for energy sources buried in the sandBy Neil deGrasse Tyson

To repeat: "Best Business Climate" not the same as best economy, best quality of life or best place to raise a family. By Charlie Quimby

Corporations aggressively seek to maximize their own privacy, and to minimize the privacy of their customers.By Edward Tufte

Remember, folks: Obama has ALREADY done a lot on climate change, mostly quite effective, although not very visible. Hoping for much more.By Jonathan Foley

I'd like to see Paul Ryan and Lance Armstrong race for a distance measured in Subway footlongs in front of cheering women who don't exist.By Chris Steller

I keep thinking about the person who had to illustrate this. By Cabel M. Sasser

Mind-body issue: people are so proud to go to the gym; so ashamed to go to a therapist.By Alain de Botton

Let's start calling teachers "collaborators."By Nikhil Goyal

Right wing groups create threats of violence, then criticize the President for having protection against their threats of violence.By Michael Moore

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Third of four daughters, raised in a rural area outside of a small town. Now living in a moderately large city, making media and immersed in other people's media. Finally cleaning out the filing cabinet and loading its contents to the cloud.